<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:58 PM, Dan TheBookMan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 7:31 PM, Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a><br>>> Patriots? Please define.<br>><br>><br>> ### Reasonable people who would like this country to flourish long-term.<br><br></div>IMO reasonable people should want the world or universe to flourish -- not merely whatever country they find themselves in at the time.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Well, yeah, but it's much easier to make your own country flourish first, and in fact you pretty much have to make it flourish if you ever want to have the resources you need to fix the universe.</div><div> ----------------</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>>> Do you mean nationalists?<br>><br>> ### No, I mean reasonable people, not idiots.<br><br></div><div>I would eschew the term patriot. It is just a euphemism for nationalist, especially meaning nationalists people are supposed to like.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### I think it's sad that manipulative hateful leftoids managed to make this once powerful word seem tawdry.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafał </div></div>
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